Mr. Trisler — when I wrote my recent letter to the editor, I expected a reply from someone in the oil business. Are you in the oil business? Yes, Mr. Trisler, they do collect taxes on gasoline and do not make the gasoline. They also collect taxes on TV and refrigerators, but do not manufacture them. They also collect taxes on your property, but don’t mow your lawn. Taxes are not what makes the price of gasoline change every hour on the hour.
Yes. Congress has passed laws to restrict drilling in the U.S. If you check the Congressional Record, I think you may find those laws were put there by Congressmen who were and are in the oil business. They knew they could obtain oil from Saudi Arabia and other countries, cheaper than they could drill for it in America, and still charge high prices for it here.
Also, it was the American oil companies that built oil fields for Saudi Arabia, resulting in the present situation. It’s just like the rest of the companies that have shipped jobs overseas. They get their product made at a slave labor price but charge much more when they sell them here. Unfortunately, so many jobs have been sent overseas that there is no one left here with a job and the ability to buy their products.
It all boils down to greed (like those million dollar bonuses) while those who “got the shaft” must stand in unemployment lines.
Some day God will step in and it will catch up with all those greedy people — and it will be payback time.
Edward Harrison
Lapel
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Letter: Blame high gas prices on greedy people
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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Letter: Government officials should answer to us
We, the people, have allowed government officials to lead us into the crazy one world order. But, is it working? Well, look at the results.
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Viewpoint: Schools, volunteers reach out to pre-kindergartners, parents
On behalf of Born Learning Connection as service of the United Way of Madison County, I would like to thank all Madison County elementary schools for their generous support in making Blast Off to Kindergarten a countywide success.
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
